Simple repro of height bug when trying to get a `<regular-table>` to participate in a flex layout
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## The repro
I came up with a simple repro of the issue I was having in #115:
https://bl.ocks.org/telamonian/00c777c2194e11f43bd7ade294095aa1
## The "bug"
The `` element renders as zero height.
## Description
In the above example, there's an `#outer` flex box that contains two children:
- a simple `` with some text content
- a `` with ~15,000 data rows
In order to get a `` element to participate in a flex layout, you have to change it's `position` (or wrap it in a `
` and change the position of that) to something other than `absolute` (I think maybe it has to be `position: relative`, not 100% sure). As soon as you change `position`, though, the `` disappears. The only resolution seems to be to set an explicit height in `px` on at least one of the parent elements of the ``. In theory, the height of the `` should be taken care of by the flex layout.
Is this a bug or not? If it is a bug, how do we fix it?
My sense is that there's a tweak to some virtual size calculation somewhere in `scroll_body.js` that will allow for height to be controlled by the flex layout
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